Fengshui

Fengshui

“Fengshui – one of the world’s most ancient arts, which teaches that man should be in harmony with nature – seems to be specially suited to adapt itself to modern usage,” so it is said and there’s a picture of Hong Kong’s imposing modern skyscrapers to illustrate this point. (The Jakarta Post, April 21, 1986).

But the picture shows anything except harmony with nature, something like beehives or colonies of termite hills. Nothing natural, like birds, trees, landscapes, wind, sun, streams, rocks, hills, mountains, …

Glorifying a modern high technology way of living – a poor substitute for nature: A.C. for mountain-air, lamplight for sunlight, ringing phones and tooting-horns for twittering and warbling birds, tap water and swimming pools for streams and lakes, sky-scrapers for hills and mountains – belittling nature, would be just arrogant modernism, not modern and contrary to Fengshui..

The Jakarta Post, April 29, 1986

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